Sunday, October 25, 2009

Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Productivity Tools - Visual Web Parts

As a SharePoint Developer and architect over the last two years I have heard a number of developers complain about the difficulty developing web parts the tranditional manner (i.e. Overriden CreateChildControls() ) due to the lack of visual designers.

Developers have achieved productivity gains by wrapping  ASP.NET user controls within the web part class using the LoadControl() method, but it did create a lot of trouble with deployment and packaging etc.
Guess what,Visual Studio 2010 ships with a new project template called the Visual WebPart Project which essential is the same setup as above but with visual studio managing all deployment and packaging concerns.
Now with single a Ctrl + F5 will deploy all of the above to your SharePoint Farm.

I will soon write about the much talked about "Developer Dashboard Feature" within SharePoint 2010 which in combination with Visual WebParts will provide tons of developer productivity.

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